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05 Jul 10
Linux SCTP and p2p applications
Just for fun to ask 3 questions :
1. Why not using SCTP to implement a Bittorrent client?
2. Why not using SCTP to do live streaming broadcast?
3. Why at present no applications based on SCTP (Windows, linux)?
See also :
But supporting SCTP has to start somewhere ? Why? http://lwn.net/Articles/363696/
05 Jul 10
I think that SCTP is not implemented more because it requires work-arounds for it to be tunneled or translated into TCP or UDP. As a developer I would not go through the extra effort of tunneling or translations for a SCTP if I can already use TCP libraries that give similar and sufficient communications.
06 Jul 10
As I searched from google, i found the EU has done extensive research on SCTP. I think EU wants to build a p2p TV network on top of SCTP.
http://tdrwww.exp-math.uni-essen.de/inhalt/forschung/sctp_fb/sctp_links.html
http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2002/19C3-495-sctp.html
http://www.sctp.be/sctplib/
http://www.myp2p.eu/
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